Content material warning: This story discusses sexual abuse.
Richard Gadd is reining in hypothesis over his Baby Reindeer characters.
The comic, who primarily based the Netflix show on his private experiences with stalking and sexual assault, issued a public plea for followers to cease attempting to establish his abusers.
“Hello Everybody,” Gadd wrote on his Instagram Story April 22, per a screenshot taken by Today. “Folks I like, have labored with, and admire (together with Sean Foley) are unfairly getting caught up in hypothesis. Please do not speculate on who any of the actual life individuals may very well be.”
He added, “That is not the purpose of our present.”
Child Reindeer facilities round a struggling comic who turns into the obsession of a stalker after an act of kindness. Since its April 11 premiere, web sleuths have tried to uncover the true identities of the characters, together with Martha the stalker (performed by Jessica Gunning) and Darrien the TV author who grooms Gadd’s character (portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill).